[00:00.000] 作词 : Kendrick Lamar/Matt Schaeffer/Homer Steinweiss/Craig Balmoris/Tyler Mehlenbacher/Sergiu Gherman/Daniel Tannenbaum/Daniel Krieger/Johnny Kosich/Jake Kosich
[00:00.006] 作曲 : Kendrick Lamar/Matt Schaeffer/Homer Steinweiss/Craig Balmoris/Tyler Mehlenbacher/Sergiu Gherman/Daniel Tannenbaum/Daniel Krieger/Johnny Kosich/Jake Kosich
[00:00.012] Heart plays in ways the mind can't figure out
[00:02.919] Heart plays in ways the mind can't—
[00:05.409] Heart plays in ways the mind can't figure out
[00:08.259] This is how we conceptualize human beings
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[00:21.603] My auntie is a man now
[00:23.431] I think I'm old enough to understand now
[00:25.741] Drinking Paul Masson with her hat turned backwards
[00:28.576] Motorola pager, Off-White Guess jacket
[00:31.078] Blue Air Max's, gold chains, and curl kits
[00:33.745] '93 Nissan wax job, the earliest
[00:36.146] Big social, big personality, vocal
[00:38.637] Played the underground verbatim and stayed local
[00:41.022] My auntie is a man now
[00:43.208] I watch him and his girl hold their hands down
[00:45.659] Tip of the avenues under street lights made his
[00:47.806]Thinking, "I want me a bad bitch when I get big"
[00:50.370] They hug on the corner like California king
[00:52.718] Cold hand all up her skirt, cars whistling down the road
[00:55.377] See, my auntie is a man now, slight bravado
[00:57.987] Scratching the likes from lotto
[00:59.548] Hoping that she pull up tomorrow
[01:00.871] So I can hang out in the front seat
[01:02.929] Six by nines keeping the music up under me
[01:05.476] My auntie is a man now
[01:06.727] Asked my momma why my uncles don't like him that much
[01:09.571] And at the parties why they always wanna fight him that much
[01:12.069] She said, "Ain't no tellin'
[01:13.333] Niggas always been jealous because he had more women
[01:15.713] More money and more attention made more envy
[01:18.174] Calling him anything but broke was less offending"
[01:21.143]
[01:21.558] My auntie is a man now
[01:23.460] I think I'm old enough to understand now
[01:25.597] Drinking Paul Masson with her hat turned backwards
[01:28.558]Back when it was comedic relief to say, "nigga"
[01:31.172]Nigga, nigga, nigga, we ain't know no better
[01:33.546] Elementary kids with no filter, however
[01:35.951] My auntie became a man and I took pride in it
[01:38.146]She wasn't gay, she ate pussy, and that was the difference
[01:40.966] That's what I told my friends in second grade
[01:43.467] She picking me up from school, they stare at her in the face
[01:46.176] They couldn't comprehend what I grew accustomed
[01:48.291] We pull off bumpin' Quik like it was nothing
[01:50.437] My auntie is a man now, what a relationship
[01:52.796] I grew up fast, I needed no one to babysit
[01:55.272] He gave me some cash then gave me some game
[01:57.364] Cherry freshener on the dash, I never complained
[01:59.899] She even cut my hair at the pad, was loving my fade
[02:02.179] The first person I seen write a rap
[02:04.396] That's when my life had changed
[02:05.958] House full of demo, smoke stuck on the window
[02:08.255] Cameras on the microphone, all women and men though
[02:10.887] My auntie was a man now, we cool with it
[02:13.561] The history had trickled down and made us ign'ant
[02:15.918] My favorite cousin said he's returning the favor
[02:18.212] And following my auntie with the same behavior
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[02:21.314] Demetrius is Mary-Ann now
[02:23.299] He's more confident to live his plan now
[02:25.928] But the family in disbelief this time
[02:28.050] Convincing themselves, "He ain't living discreet, he's fine"
[02:30.805] They said they never seen it in him, but I seen it
[02:33.282] The Barbie dolls played off reflection of Venus
[02:35.735] He built a wall so tall you couldn't climb over
[02:38.238] He didn't laugh as hard when the kids start joking
[02:40.656]"Nigga, nigga, nigga," we ain't know no better
[02:43.731] Middle school kids with no filter, however
[02:45.755] I had to be very mindful of my good cousin
[02:48.260] I knew exactly who he was, but I still loved him
[02:51.161] Demetrius is Mary-Ann now
[02:53.099] I mean he's really Mary-Ann, even took things further
[02:55.691] Changed his gender before Bruce Jenner was certain
[02:58.098] Living his truth even if it meant see a surgeon
[03:00.660] We didn't talk for a while, he seemed more distant
[03:03.259] Wasn't comfortable around me, everything was offensive
[03:05.921] But I recall we both had a sick sense of humor
[03:08.648] Made raw, but time changes all
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[03:11.224] Demetrius is Mary-Ann now
[03:13.033] Remember church, Easter Sunday?
[03:15.122] I sat in the pew, you had stronger faith
[03:17.579] More spiritual when these dudes were living life straight
[03:20.189] Which I found ironic 'cause the pastor didn't see him the same
[03:23.272] He said my cousin was going through some things
[03:25.368] He promised the world we living in was an act on abomination
[03:28.789] And Demetrius was to blame
[03:30.160] I knew you was conflicted by the feelings of preacherman
[03:32.742] Wondering if God still call you a decent man
[03:35.372] Still you found the courage to be subservient just to anoint
[03:38.595] Until he singled you out to prove his point, saying
[03:41.067] "Demetrius is Mary-Ann now
[03:43.306] Church, his auntie is a man now," it hurt
[03:46.358] You the most 'cause your belief was close to his words
[03:49.051] Forcing me to stand now
[03:50.749] I said, "Mr. Preacherman, should we love thy neighbor?
[03:53.564] The laws of the land or the heart, what's greater?
[03:55.873] I recognize the study she was taught since birth
[03:58.158] But that don't justify the feelings that my cousin preserved"
[04:00.715] The building was thinking out loud, bad angel
[04:03.227] That's when you looked at me and smiled, said, "Thank you"
[04:05.962] The day I chose humanity over religion
[04:08.526] The family got closer, it was all forgiven
[04:10.706] I said them F-bombs, I ain't know any better
[04:13.265] Mistakenly, I ain't think that you'd know any different
[04:15.706] See, I was taught words was nothing more than a sound
[04:18.384] If ever they was pronounced without any intentions
[04:20.827] The very second you challenged the shit I was kicking
[04:23.294] Reminded me about a show I did out the city
[04:25.765] That time I brung a fan on stage to rap
[04:28.170] But disapproved the word that she couldn't say with me
[04:30.792] You said, "Kendrick, ain't no room for contradiction
[04:33.370] To truly understand love, switch position
[04:35.720]'Nigga, nigga, nigga,' we can say it together
[04:38.322] But only if you let a white girl say 'Nigga'"